1. Species differentiation within the Staphylococcus intermedius group using a refined MALDI-TOF MS database 
J. Murugaiyan, B. Walther, I. Stamm, Y. Abou-Elnaga, S. Brueggemann-Schwarze, S. Vincze, L.H. Wieler, A. Lübke-Becker, T. Semmler, U. Roesler 
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages (October 2014)
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2. FIG. 1
A zoomed view (range from 2000 to m/z) of representative matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization—time of flight mass spectra obtained for the distinct members of the Staphylococcus intermedius group (SIG): Staphylococcus delphini (a), Staphylococcus intermedius (b) and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (c).
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3. FIG. 2
Graphical representation of the score values obtained for 200 Staphylococcus intermedius group (SIG) isolates before and after refinement (ii) of the Biotyper 3.0 database with reference spectra for 60 SIG together with ten other coagulase-positive staphylococci (= 70 spectra). Circles indicate the score values achieved by applying the manufacturer’s version of the database (approach (i), see Materials and Methods for further explanation) and the diamonds represent the score values reached in the second measurement (ii), associated with a rise of the average value score of 0.24.
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4. FIG. 3
Comparison of (a) score-oriented dendrogram of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization—time of flight mass spectral profiles generated using Biotyper 3.0 software and (b) unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean based tree calculated from the distances of the sequences of the four housekeeping genes pta, cpn60, tuf and 16S rRNA.
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